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15-579: Fengyang County is divided into 14 towns and 1 township . The county seat is in Fucheng Town. The county is home to the following 14 towns: The county's sole township is: The county's northern border is formed by the Huai River and neighboring Wuhe County . The county is also home to the Huayuan Lake, which totals about 30 square kilometers in size. The average annual temperature for Fengyang County

30-401: A higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages ( 村 ; cūn , or 庄 ; zhuāng ). A typical provincial map would merely show a town as a circle centered at its urban area and labeled with its name, while a more detailed one (e.g., a map of

45-427: A provincial atlas - would label the county seat location with both the name of the county (e.g., 通山县 ; Tōngshān xiàn ) and, below, and in a smaller font, with the name of the township (e.g., 通羊镇 ; Tōngyáng zhèn ). Intercity buses, trains, or riverboats destined to, or stopping at a county seat may designate its destination either by the name of the county or the name of the county-seat township. In contrast to

60-419: A single county-level division) would also show the borders dividing the county or county-level city into towns ( 镇 ) and/or township ( 乡 ) and subdistrict (街道) units. The town in which the county level government, and usually the division's main urban area), are located is often not marked on less-detailed maps, because its location is usually labeled with the name of the county level division rather than

75-661: Is 14.9 °C, and the average annual precipitation is 904.4 mm. During the Xia, Shang and early Zhou dynasties, the Dongyi peoples inhabited this area and were collectively known as the Huaiyi after the Huai River. During the late Western Zhou Period and the early Spring and Autumn period , the Dongyi became increasingly sinicized and formed their own states. During the late Spring and Autumn period,

90-512: Is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (traditional: 鎮 ; pinyin : zhèn ; Wade–Giles : chen ). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with, for example, townships ( Chinese : 乡 ; pinyin : xiāng ). A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town. Similarly to

105-529: The Great Leap Forward , 60,245 people of the county died, occupying 17.7 percent to its total population of 335,698. 8,404 complete households were wiped out. In 1974, future Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was sent to Damiao , Fengyang County as part of Mao Zedong 's Down to the Countryside Program . Here, he did manual labour throughout the day and studied for university, Li recounts his days in

120-726: The Huaiyi peoples were either pushed south or assimilated. Fengyang's best known historical site is linked with the name of the county's most famous native, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398). Although coming from a poor family, he became an important rebel leader and, later, the founder of China's Ming Dynasty . Once entrenched as the Hongwu Emperor in the nearby Nanjing , he honored the memory of his father, Zhu Wusi (d. 1344), and his mother, Lady Chen, by posthumously raising them to imperial dignity, and building for them an imperial-style mausoleum, known as Ming Huangling ( 明皇陵 , literally, "Ming Imperial Mausoleum"). The emperor even started building

135-527: The PRC, in the official translation adopted in the ROC , both the characters " 鄉 " (pinyin: xiāng ) and " 鎮 " ( zhèn ) are translated as "townships", with zhèn specifically being "urban" township, 'with xiāng specifically translated as "rural" township G36 Nanjing%E2%80%93Luoyang Expressway The Nanjing–Luoyang Expressway ( Chinese : 南京—洛阳高速公路 ), designated as G36 and commonly referred to as

150-562: The county as "hard times". He rose up to the rank of Damiao's Communist Party branch secretary in 1976, before leaving for Peking University in 1978. Fengyang County's natural resources include limestone , quartz , marble , vermiculite , and asbestos . Key highways in the county include the G36 Expressway , Anhui Provincial Highway 101, Anhui Provincial Highway 207, Anhui Provincial Highway 307, and Anhui Provincial Highway 310. The Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Rail also passes through

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180-522: The name of the actual town into which this urban area falls. For example, the county government of Tongshan County is located in Tongyang Town ( 通羊镇 ; Tōngyáng zhèn ), but the maps would normally show it with a circle labeled "Tongshan County" ( 通山县 ) or simply "Tongshan" ( 通山 ). Road signs would also normally show distance to "Tongshan" rather than "Tongyang". On the other hand, more detailed maps - e.g., maps of individual prefecture-level cities in

195-524: The new imperial capital, named Zhongdu ( 中都 ; 'The Central Capital') near his childhood hometown, but the project was eventually abandoned. The stone figures of the Huangling Mausoleum have survived, and have been re-erected at the original location, some 7 km (4.3 mi)south of the county seat (( 32°48′50″N 117°31′10″E  /  32.81389°N 117.51944°E  / 32.81389; 117.51944 )). The mausoleum statuary and

210-698: The once-powerful Dongyi state of Xu was pressured from all directions and destroyed through a series of wars with its neighbors, such as the Chu State and the Wu State. Another Dongyi State was the small Zhongli State, which was a part of the Huaiyi Confederation led by the State of Xu. Tombs belonging to the royalty of the Zhongli State were discovered in excavations between 2005 and 2008 near Fengyang . Eventually,

225-656: The remains of the capital-building project are protected as a national historic site known as "Zhongdu Imperial City of the Ming and the Imperial Mausoleum's Statuary" ( 明中都皇故城及皇陵石刻 ). In 1370, existing counties in the area were merged into a new county, named Linhuai County. In 1754, Linhuai County was restructured into a new county called Fengyang County, which serves as the descendant of the modern Fengyang County. The county's borders are jurisdiction has changed numerous times since its Qing-era formation. From 1959 to 1960, during

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